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Sir Richard Burton : False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. # Friends and Friendship

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Sir Richard Burton quote-False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but...

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Bertrand Russell : " It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. " # Friends and Friendship

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Source Unknown : " The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. " # Friends and Friendship

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Phillips Brooks : " No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. " # Friends and Friendship

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D H Lawrence : " Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. " # Friends and Friendship

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Edgar Allan Poe : " There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. " # Friends and Friendship

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1835-1902 Samuel Butler : " All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. " # Friends and Friendship

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Georg Hegel : " Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. " # Friends and Friendship

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Milan Kundera : " Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. " # Friends and Friendship

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Simone De Beauvoir : " In Plato, art is mystification because there is the heaven of Ideas; but in the earthly domain all glorification of the earth is true as soon as it is realized. Let men attach value to words, forms, colors, mathematical theorems, physical laws, and athletic prowess; let them accord value to one another in love and friendship, and the objects, the events, and the men immediately have this value; they have it absolutely. It is possible that a man may refuse to love anything on earth; he will prove this refusal and he will carry it out by suicide. If he lives, the reason is that, whatever he may say, there still remains in him some attachment to existence; his life will be commensurate with this attachment; it will justify itself to the extent that it genuinely justifies the world. This justification, though open upon the entire universe through time and space, will always be finite. Whatever one may do, one never realizes anything but a limited work, like existence itself which tries to establish itself through that work and which death also limits. It is the assertion of our finiteness which doubtless gives the doctrine which we have just evoked its austerity and, in some eyes, its sadness. As soon as one considers a system abstractly and theoretically, one puts himself, in effect, on the plane of the universal, thus, of the infinite. ... existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men. Taking on its own account Descartes’ revolt against the evil genius, the pride of the thinking reed in the face of the universe which crushes him, it asserts that, despite his limits, through them, it is up to each one to fulfill his existence as an absolute. Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. There is a very old saying which goes: “Do what you must, come what may.” That amounts to saying in a different way that the result is not external to the good will which fulfills itself in aiming at it. If it came to be that each man did what he must, existence would be saved in each one without there being any need of dreaming of a paradise where all would be reconciled in death. " # Friends and Friendship

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Marcus T Cicero : " What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. " # Friends and Friendship

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Sir Richard Burton: " I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink." # Alcohol and Alcoholism

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Sir Richard Burton: " As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue." # Affliction # Virtue # Spirit and Spirituality

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Sir Richard Burton: " When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk." # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Freedom # Power

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Sir Richard Burton: " They lard their lean books with the fat of others work." # Plagiarism # Books - Reading # Work

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Sir Richard Burton: " Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race." # Travel and Tourism # Anger # Poetry and Poets

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Sir Richard Burton: " False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports." # Friends and Friendship

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Sir Richard Burton: " I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out." # Quotations # Love # Babies

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Sir Richard Burton: " The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional." # Quotations # Acting and Actors # Books - Reading

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Sir Richard Burton: " An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman." # Quotations # Acting and Actors # Intelligence and Intellectuals

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